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The queen is dead, long live the queen! After bringing home my new bike, I wanted to properly introduce her to the mountains of Romania. I already knew the best place for this: the legendary Fagaras ridge trail. Not all of it obviously, but I read the Eastern side is suitable on a bike. I planned a route starting from the city of Fagaras. Got there by train on Friday Continue…

This was Papaya’s last ride (with me, at least). We had 6 seasons together (well… during 2017 I only got one weekend in, due to my knee injury+surgery). We rode 3416 km, most of them on some mountains somewhere awesome. We’ve went through many adventures: – biking in hot dusty isolated Henry Coe State Park – night biking in Santa Cruz – crossing Vrancea’s mountains in search of large carnivores Continue…

For those that don’t know what “Bike 4 Mountains” is, … you’re missing out on things! It was my second try at this epic contest. I had a go 4 years ago and we all know how that ended.. This time I had two goals in mind: Don’t crash Take a lot of cool photos – useful when I’ll be 70, schizophrenic and I’ll forget how awesome I used to Continue…

First post-surgery serious hike, hooray! Chose Iezer-Papusa in probably the last decent-weather-and-no-snow weekend of this year. For the complete experience we spent the night at the Iezer Shelter (2150 meters elevation). Started the climb from Voina Chalet (more like Motel) on some nice and warm temperatures. As we picked up altitude and the wind made itself noticed, we ended up wearing most of our clothes. Still, we were enjoying ourselves Continue…

TLDR: Yes, go there. Romania doesn’t have a lot of bike trails. If you’re mountain biking, you’ll be using: – Unpaved roads. A lot of them were created to help in logging. How do you feel now, knowing you benefit from the country’s deforestation? They’re wide, boring, oftentimes crazy steep. Good for access to/from the mountain, but sad if they make up most of your trip. – Hiking trails. They Continue…